INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

• Submission of manuscripts |
• Presentation of the paper |
• Illustrations and tables |
• Offprints |
• Copyright |

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Submission of manuscripts

Authors should submit papers via the EJournalPress online submission system at: http://ap.msubmit.net.

You will be required to submit two documents, containing the following elements:

1. Author Contact Details and Biography:

• the title of the article
• a short running title of no more than 40 characters (including spaces)
• the author(s)' names and affiliations
• a short biography of no more than 100 words for each author
• contact details for the corresponding author (including full postal and email addresses as well as telephone and fax numbers)

2. Article:

• the title of the article
• a summary or abstract of 150-200 words in length outlining the aims and subject matter
• 3-6 keywords that describe your paper - for indexing and abstracting services
• the article in full, including references

Please make sure that the article file does not contain any information identifying the author(s).

Editorial queries should be directed to the Editors' Secretary, Ms Margriet Lambert (acta.politica@fsw.vu.nl).

If you have any problems submitting your article via the online submission system, please contact Ros Pyne (r.pyne@palgrave.com).

Books for review should be sent to:

• Dr. Wouter van der Brug, Acta Politica Book Review Editor
  Department of Communication Science
  University of Amsterdam
  Kloveniersburgwal 48
  1012 CX Amsterdam
  The Netherlands
  Tel: + 31 20 5252765
  E-mail: W.vanderBrug@uva.nl

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Presentation of the paper

Articles should be in English, typed in double spacing (including all notes and references), preferably A4 or US standard size, with pages numbered.

Articles should not normally exceed 8,000 words in length. Print a word count at the end of the text together with the date of the manuscript.

Notes

Keep textual notes to a minimum, indicate them with superscript numbers, and provide the note text as a list at the end of the article before the references. Please do not use Proofs.

References in the text

In the text, refer to the author(s) name(s) (without initials, unless there are two authors with the same name) and year of publication. Unpublished data and personal communications should include initials and year. Publications which have not yet appeared are to be avoided. If used, they are to be given a probable year of publication and should be checked at proof stage on the author query sheet.

• Example:

  Since Patterson (1983) has shown that... This is in results attained later (Kramer, 1984, 16). Results have been reported (Robinson, 1989, personal communication) which suggest...

• Publications by the same author(s) in the same year should be identified with a, b, c (e.g. 1974a, 1990b) closed up to the year. If there are two authors for a publication, put both names separated by 'and' (not &). If there are more than two authors, put the name of the first author followed by et al. References to material on the internet must be given in brackets in the text, not in the reference list. The full URL must be given.

• Example:

  www.nature.com/onc/v18/nl/1234567.html

List of references

References are placed in alphabetical order of authors. Examples of correct forms of references in alphabetical style:

• Article in journal

  Higgott, R. (1998) 'The Asian economic crisis: a study in the politics of resentment', New Political Economy 3(3): 333-336.
  Bender, J., Bloggs, B. and Swistak, P. (1997) 'The evolutionary stability in cooperation', American Political Science Review 91(3): 290-297.

• Book

  Giddens, A. (1990) The Consequences of Modernity, Cambridge: Polity.
  Brown, C. (ed.) (1994) Political restructuring in Europe: Ethical Perspectives, London: Routledge.

• Chapter in book

  Hook, G.D. (1998) 'Japanese Business in Triadic Globalization', in H. Hasegawa and G.D. Hook (eds.) Japanese Business Management: Restructuring for Low Growth and Globalization, London, Routledge, pp.19-38.

• Conference paper

  Harley, N.H. (1981) 'Radon risk models', in A.R. Knight and B.Harrad (eds.) Indoor Air and Human Health, Proceedings of the Seventh Life Sciences Symposium; 29-31 October 1981; Knoxville, USA. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Pp. 69-78.

• Thesis

  Zito, A. (1994) 'Epistemic communities in European policy-making' Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh.

• Newspaper article

  Barber, L. (1993) 'The towering bureaucracy', Financial Times, 21 June.

Spelling

Use either UK or US spellings consistently throughout. For UK spellings, take as a guide the new edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary and the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors; Websters Collegiate for US spellings. UK spellings will prefer '-ize' to '-ise', as a verb ending (e.g. realize, specialize, recognize etc.).

Illustrations and tables

Supply tables, figures and plates on separate sheets at the end of the article, with their position within the text clearly indicated on the page where they are introduced. Provide typed captions for figures and plates (including sources and acknowledgements) on a separate sheet. Electronic versions should be saved in either TIFF or Jpeg format.

Present tables with the minimum use of horizontal rules (usually three are sufficient) and avoiding vertical rules except in matrices. It is important to provide clear copies of figures (not photocopies or faxes) which can be reproduced by the printer and do not require redrawing. Photographs should be preferably black and white glossy prints with a wide tonal range.

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Offprints

A copy of the printed journal and article offprints (25, to be shared with co-authors) are dispatched to authors shortly after publication.

Copyright

Clearing permissions

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders for reproducing through any medium of communication those illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. Add your acknowledgements to the typescript, preferably in the form of an Acknowledgements section at the end of the paper. Credit the source and copyright of photographs or figures in the accompanying captions. The journal's policy is to own copyright in all contributions. Before publication authors assign copyright to the Publishers, but retain their rights to republish this material in other works written or edited by them, subject to full acknowledgement of the original source of publication.

The journal mandates the Copyright Clearance Center in the USA and Copyright Licensing Agency in the UK to offer centralised licensing arrangements for photocopying in their respective territories.

Books for review

Books for review should be sent to:

• Ms. Margriet Lambert, Editors' Secretary, Acta Politica
  Department of Political Science, Vrije Universiteit
  De Boelelaan 1081c
  1081 HV Amsterdam
  The Netherlands
  E-mail: acta.politica@fsw.vu.nl